APPENDIX 9
Supplementary memorandum submitted by
AVID (Association of Visitors to Immigration Detainees)
IMMIGRATION REMOVAL CENTRES COMPARATIVE REGIMES,
WITH REFERENCE TO THE DETENTION CENTRE RULES
| Removal Centre |
Rules 10 & 11: Separate accommodation for females/families
| 12: Clothing adequate for warmth and health
| 15: Certification
of accommodation
| 16: Hygiene | 17: Regime and paid activity
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| Campsfield House | Not applicable.
| Chaplain provides underclothes on request but long delays experienced. Not supplied by Group 4.
| Old, basic accommodation. | Basics available from shop or on declaration of destitution, in small amounts daily (airline style).
| £3 phone card given on arrival. No other cards supplied. No money given.
|
| Dover | Not applicable. | Own clothing laundered by staff. Issued items can be exchanged for clean.
| Very stark prison accommodation. No curtains at windows.
| Basics given if destitute—except deodorants. Shop open 5 days a week.
| £5 per week given. |
| Dungavel House | Male staff can access all areas.
| Tracksuits given to destitute detainees. |
4 or 5 to a room. | Basics available from shop, open daily.
| £3.50 per week. |
| Harmondsworth | Although separate accommodation, male staff are able to access entire area on their own.
| Tracksuits given to destitute for return on removal or release.
| Satisfactory, basic accommodation. | Basics available from shop or on declaration of destitution, in small amounts.
| £4 per week. |
| Haslar | Not applicable. |
Prison uniform available and laundered by staff. No right to laundering of personal clothes. Laundry not sorted—uniforms, inc underpants, re-allocated at random.
| No curtains or blinds which make rooms cold. 3 beds touching which could cause contagion of disease or lice.
| Basics—except toothpaste issued. Toothpaste may be bought in the shop—open 2 or 3 times a week.
| £2.50 per week. £3 card on arrival only.
|
| Lindholme | Not applicable. |
Laundry done by staff on an individual basis. |
Cellular basic prison accommodation. | Basics available on declaration of destitution, in small amounts. Shop open only once a week for purchases.
| £2.50 per week. 50p deducted if have TV in their room. Fined £2.50 if lose room key or ID card.
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| Tinsley House | Very strict separation of sexes. No male staff allowed onto female or families wings.
| Have to return tracksuits. Only one pair of replacement pants supplied free of charge.
| Satisfactory, basic accommodation. | Basics available from shop or on declaration of destitution, given in small amounts—one day's supply.
| No cash given. £5 phone card once a week.
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| Removal Centre | 26: Outside contact
| 28: Visits | 31: Use of telephones
| 32: Money and articles sent by post/received via visits
| 43: Special control and restraint |
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| Campsfield House | No internet access.
| 5 hours visiting per day 7 days a week (35 hours per week).
| Phone cards can be bought in shop. If no money, have to declare themselves destitute. Group 4 not allowing free phone calls for those destitute to lawyers/immigration.
| Can be handed in for detainee on visit or posted in.
| Handcuffs used for outside appointments. |
| Dover | No internet access. No phone cards given to make up for short visiting hours.
| 2.5 hours per day, 7 days a week (17.5 hours per week).
| Expensive BT system. No cheap overseas cards sold in shop.
| No property or cash may be handed in. Can be posted in.
| Handcuffed on visits to hospital etc. |
| Dungavel House | No internet access.
| 7 hours visiting per day, 7 days a week (49 hours per week).
| Phone cards sold in shop. Cheaper alternatives
N/A.
| Property can be handed in on visits. | Not handcuffed for outside visits.
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| Harmondsworth | No internet access, although did agree to investigate following stakeholder meeting.
| 7 hours per day, 7 days a week (49 hours per week). Very lengthy process to get in to visit.
| BT system. Cheap cards available for long distance calls sold in shop.
| Can be handed in on visits or posted in. |
Handcuffs used for outside appointments. |
| Haslar | No internet access. |
2 hours per day, 6 days a week (12 hours per week).
| Interim contract. No cheap phone cards available from shop.
| No property may be handed in. Can be posted in. Only newspapers and cash can be given on visits.
| Handcuffs used for outside appointments. |
| Lindholme | No internet access. No extra phone cards given to make up for short visiting hours.
| 2.5 hours per day, 7 days a week (17.5 hours per week).
| BT system. Cheap cards not available for long distance calls.
| No property may be handed in. Can be posted in.
| Handcuffed for outside appointments. |
| Tinsley House | No internet access.
| 7 hours per day, 7 days a week (49 hours per week).
| BT system. Cheap cards available for long distance and local calls in the shop.
| Can be handed in or posted in apart from prohibited items.
| Handcuffs used on outside visits. |
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Summary
In the recommendations of a recent study[1]
the following points arose:
(1) need for emotional support for people detained;
(2) need for a sympathetic environment, which is not met
in the prison Removal Centres;
(3) need for automatic Bail Hearings, not enacted in 1999
Act;
(4) need for access to outside information and support
towards their case which is limited by cost of phone calls, lack
of visiting hours and inability to sites on the web.
Haslar Removal Centre would seem to be the only Centre still
using strip searches after visiting and justifying this under
Prison Rules as Operating Standards have not yet been written
and implemented.
In the three prisons used as Removal Centres, lock in times
into their wings and rooms are excessive. Again, these are justified
under Prison Rules.
Curtains are not part of a Prison environment and have not
been installed when Immigration contracted to use these buildings.
Heat is lost, detainees sleep patterns are disrupted and the temperature
of the rooms has caused problems, particularly at Haslar Removal
Centre. It is understood that curtains are to be installed in
December 2002.
The alarming rise in attempted suicides at Dover Removal
Centre (six to date in the last two months) should be indicating
that the very restrictive prison type regime needs urgent investigation.
With lock in times from 4 pm and 8 pm into dormitories and rooms,
this causes feelings of isolation and despair. Visiting hours
are at times when those who could visit are working, and no attempt
seems to have been made to change these hours. Visitors have been
proven in other Centres to enhance the lives of people detained,
reassure them that they are not forgotten and make their lives
more bearable.
The inequalities of treatment of immigration detainees is
also highlighted in the response to the questionnaire from Gabriela
Rodriguez, Special Rapporteur on Human Rights of Migrants, United
Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva, 11 October
2002.
WELFARE PROVISION FOR IMMIGRATION DETAINEES
INTRODUCTION
1. Many cases have arisen of asylum seekers and other
immigration detainees losing important documents and property.
They are often detained without warning and without any opportunity
to collect or provide for the custody of important documents and
property. Documents and property may also be retained by the police,
Immigration Service or Removal Centre Management without adequate
receipts and may subsequently go missing.
2. Some asylum seekers and immigrants are detained without
the opportunity to contact family or friends and make adequate
provision for the care and support of a wife and children, none
of whom may speak English adequately or understand the support
system in this country. Others have been removed at short notice
without the opportunity to collect or provide for the disposal
of valuable property, including business assets, clothing, personal
possessions or money. They may also not have the opportunity to
provide for the support of family members remaining in the UK.
3. On some occasions, the lack of facilities for those
detained to make proper provision for their families does not
accord with Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
The lack of facilities to make arrangements to secure or obtain
access to property does not accord with Article 1 of the First
Protocol to the Convention. Both are enshrined in the UK Human
Rights Act 1998.
PERSONAL AND
BUSINESS PROPERTY
AND DOCUMENTS
4. Immigration detainees come from a wide spectrum of
backgrounds. Some may have been here for a number of years and
have a house, business, car, furniture and other property. A house
may be rented or subject to a mortgage. Defaulting on payments
may lead to court proceedings and to repossession by the owner
or mortgage lender. This may result in the contents being sold
or being put out in the street by the bailiffs. If the detainee
is later released and given leave to remain in the UK he (or she)
will find his credit rating has suffered through no fault of his.
5. If a car is left parked on the street or in a public
car park, it may be towed away within hours and be costly to recover.
It may also be repossessed under a hire purchase agreement, with
similar effects to the above.
6. Those who have established businesses need to be able
to make arrangements for them to be run efficiently in their absence
and for cash to be available for this. Their deputy needs the
written authority to make decisions, to run bank accounts, etc.
These arrangements must be made quickly if the business is not
to suffer.
7. People with a business or a house have a great deal
to lose if they abscond or do not keep in contact with the Immigration
Service. The use of alternatives to detention should be effective
in these cases. This would reduce the range of welfare problems
in Removal/Detention Centres.
8. Others will have been living in a hostel or sharing
an apartment. They may hot have many possessions, but such as
they have are likely to be very important to them. Their few belongings
may include documents vital to their asylum claim or immigration
status. In many cases, all their possessions are likely to disappear
within a few days if arrangements are not made quickly to pack
them and have them brought to the Removal/Detention Centre. Many
detainees may not have a friend who can do this for them. In these
cases, it will be necessary to provide someone else with the authority
to collect and pack belongings and to defray their expenses.
9. Much stress and worry could be avoided if those detained
at a police station or immigration office were sent, or escorted,
home and given the opportunity to pack personal belongings before
being taken to a Removal/Detention Centre. It is important that
all Centres accept the luggage of detainees, whether brought with
them or delivered later. Agencies employed to transport detainees
should also be prepared to transport their luggage at the same
time.
10. Personal belongings are often retained on detention
by the Police, Immigration Service or Removal/Detention Centre
Management. As these are the items that people carry with them,
they are likely to include important personal documents and items
of significant sentimental or family value. Documents are also
impounded by Immigration Officers when detaining people from their
homes/places of residence. If it is necessary for any authority
to retain these, it is very important that receipts are given
and that these receipts accurately describe what has been retained.
If it is not necessary to retain them, they should always be returned
to the owner.
11. It is equally important that property confiscated
on initial arrest is sent on with the detainee to his place of
detention or transferred to the Immigration Service to be placed
in his/her immigration file. The detainee should be provided with
written acknowledgement of any such transfer and with a detailed
receipt from the Immigration Service. Wherever possible, possessions
confiscated on arrest should be returned to the detainee before
he/she is moved on to a Removal/Detention Centre.
FAMILIES
12. A person may be detained without warning when reporting
to a police station or to the Immigration Service. His wife/partner
(or her husband/partner) will be expecting him home. He may have
arranged to pick up children from school or from a child minder.
He may be responsible for the custody of children, if his partner
is in hospital or otherwise not available. His wife/partner and
children may have little English and little understanding of the
support system on which they may be relying. In some cases, benefit
payments may stop if they are in the name of the family member
who is detained.
13. In these cases, quick and reliable access for the
detainee to a welfare service is essential for the well being
of the family and for the peace of mind of the detainee. On occasions
it may be necessary to take the detainee to see his family or
children before any further action is taken.
14. Families, particularly those including young children,
need the support of medical and welfare services and are unlikely
to move away from them. Restrictions other than detention should
enable contact to be maintained with families. Welfare problems
in Removal/Detention Centres would be greatly reduced if detention
of families were avoided.
15. If a family is detained, it is most important for
their welfare that they are given adequate time to pack personal
possessions for both parents and children before they are taken
to a Removal/Detention Centre.
REMOVAL
16. If he/she is to be removed to another country, there
are further facilities that a detainee needs if he/she is not
to be seriously and unfairly disadvantaged. He/she faces a difficult
and stressful future, whatever the merits of his/her asylum or
immigration position, and should be treated with humanity.
17. Those with business assets, house or other property
need the time and facilities to make arrangements for their disposal
or continuing management in their absence. All need the facilities
to be able to have their personal possessions collected and brought
to the Removal/Detention Centre before they are removed. Some
may need to arrange for bulky possessions to be sent direct to
their destination by freight. Many may need the facility to withdraw
money from a bank account and to transfer money to the country
to which they are being sent. Some may need to make arrangements
for the support of family members remaining in the UK.
CONCLUSIONS
18. The first measure needed to improve the welfare of
detainees and, hence, the prospect of their co-operating with
the Immigration Service, is to ensure that all those detained
from any form of residence, legal or not, be given facilities
to pack personal possessions before being taken to a Removal/Detention
Centre.
19. Removal/Detention Centres should accept personal
belongings, and escort services should carry them whenever transporting
detainees. The welfare service should have the facility to collect
them and deliver them to the Centres.
20. The second measure is to ensure that, whenever possible,
alternatives to detention are used to maintain contact with families
and those with businesses or property. This would be in accordance
with the provisions of the Operational Enforcement Manual.
21. Once in a Removal/Detention Centre, the key to providing
the majority of the facilities needed by immigration detainees
is the provision of all Centres of an independent welfare service.
Access to similar services should be provided at any other places
where immigration detainees are held. This requirement will need
to be incorporated in the management contract for each Removal/Detention
Centre and in the relevant agreements with the Prison Service.
The contract should ensure that suitable personnel, with appropriate
qualifications and experience, are engaged. They should have access
to all agencies with relevant specialist knowledge.
22. It must be remembered that detainees are reluctant
to approach, or to trust, Centre Management, the Police or the
Immigration Service. For the service to be effective, it must
be independent and be clearly seen by the detainees to be independent,
even though funded through the management contract. Equivalent
services are provided in other institutions, such as prisons and
hospitals.
23. Those with families who are detained without warning
should be given facilities to communicate with wife/partner and/or
children immediately on detention. The need for a visit to the
family home within the first few hours should be assessed and,
if necessary, arranged.
24. Receipts given for personal possessions and documents
should describe them accurately. For documents, in particular,
the description should be sufficient to ensure that, if the document
is subsequently lost, there is no subsequent dispute over what
was taken. As far as possible, personal possessions should be
returned to the detainee, especially when he/she is transferred
to another location.
25. Removal Directions and flight arrangements should
always allow a detainee sufficient time to put his affairs in
order before being removed. Directions should advise a detainee
that he should visit the welfare service and take any other steps
necessary, even if his solicitor is trying to delay removal.
RECOMMENDATIONS
26. It is recommended that:
(a) all those detained, other than on arrival, be given
the facility to pack personal possessions and take them to the
place of detention;
(b) full descriptive receipts be given, in all cases,
for all documents and possessions taken by all authorities at
any stage of the asylum/immigration process;
(c) Removal/Detention Centres and agencies used to transport
detainees accept the liability to hold and transport, with the
detainee, his personal possessions and luggage;
(d) the rules in the Operational Enforcement Manual, section
38.8 et al be applied to avoid the detention of families
and those with businesses or property. They have significant ties
which render absconding unlikely;
(e) contracts for the management of Removal/Detention
Centres include the provision of independent welfare personnel
and that access to similar persons be available at other places
where immigration detainees are held;
(f) Welfare services at Removal/Detention Centres, under
sub paragraph (d) above, include facilities to arrange for the
welfare of families, custody/disposal or delivery to the Centre
of personal possessions, withdrawal and transfer of money, disposal
or management of business assets and property etc. Removal procedures
should allow time for their use.
WELFARE ISSUES FOR DETAINEES: RESPONSES FROM CONTRACTORS—DECEMBER
2002
| Previously arranged appointments: Hospital, social security (SS), benefits agency (BA)
| Collection of personal property from home, lodgings or hotel
| The securing of property, belongings or car
| The sale of property, belongings or car
| Transfer of money abroad | Arranging withdrawals of cash from banks
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| Campsfield | Make every effort to keep existing hospital appointments. Would facilitate contact with the relevant SS or BA office as necessary but not encountered this to date.
| Pass request to IS for them to make appropriate arrangements.
| | | | Has been done on a number of occasions, utilising Western Union.
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| Local escort to a High Street bank cash point. Will facilitate phone calls to the bank if there is a need to transfer cash to local bank and will escort to banking hall.
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| Dover | Previously arranged hospital appointments will be kept if at local hospital. SS and BA appointments not been raised as an issue.
| Encouraged to discuss situation with Immigration Liaison Officers and IOs. Would facilitate access to phone, fax or letter.
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| Dungavel | Previously arranged hospital appointments would be rearranged with local hospital.
| The contractor has, on a number of occasions arranged for personal belongings to be collected.
| Would advise detainee that this would be a matter for their solicitor. A DCO receiving such a request would pass it on to member of the management team.
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| Contractor also mentions access to the requests and complaints procedure, and access to external organisations such as Scottish Refugee Council and IAS. All requests would be considered and if necessary researched in order that a reasoned reply could be given.
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| Haslar | Any hospital appointment will, where possible, be met. SS and BA appointments dealt with by phone or letter.
| Need to be collected by family members or legal representatives.
| | | | Made by family members or legal representatives.
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| Harmondsworth | Ensure outstanding hospital appointments are kept. Do not keep SS or BA appointments.
| Would advise detainees to initially contact friends or families, or their legal representatives, or place them in touch with IAS or RLC.
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| Have as an exception allowed detainees to cash cheques but on the understanding that monies not handed over until cheque cleared.
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| Lindholme | Would ensure that hospital appointments are kept, if necessary by ensuring appointment is transferred to local hospital. Issue of SS and BA appointments has never arisen.
| For friends and relatives, or could contact local police station in area of last address.
| For friends and relatives, or could contact local police station in area of last address. May also seek assistance from local voluntary or Church organisations.
| Undertaken by detainee's legal representative.
| Detainee advised to contact his bank, via fax, authorising the release or transfer of funds. Centre will arrange transfer of cash "in pocket" to foreign bank.
| Letter of authorisation would be sent from detainee to his bank, copied to his solicitor for collection of money.
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| Contractor has recently introduced a new post of Community Welfare Liaison Officer whose responsibility it is to ensure that welfare issues are properly addressed.
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| Tinsley House | Re hospital appointments, staff would inform medical centre. Re SS and BA, passed to IS staff and necessity of appointment confirmed.
| Pass request to IS for them to make appropriate arrangements.
| | | | Detainee advised to contact bank by letter/telephone. Staff would assist if necessary.
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| Each case considered on its merits. Small cash withdrawals can usually be facilitated at port. For large cash withdrawals, would consider escorting detainee to bank subject to operational needs and security considerations.
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| Oakington | The contractor considers that few of these concerns are raised at Oakington because of the fast track procedures here. The detainee is very much concentrated on the asylum claim. Because legal representatives are on site, the contractor tends to be by-passed if these sorts of queries are raised. They can be resolved without the need to involve the contractor's staff.
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CONDITIONS IN
REMOVAL CENTRES
Government policy is to use detention only at the end of
the asylum process as part of the business of removal. It is therefore
legitimate to consider the conditions in Removal Centres in the
enquiry. Example:
Inhumane
Haslar Centre is an old Victorian barracks, where the men
live in dormitories of 30 or so. They sleep in bleak and tiny
cubicles without curtains carpets or even a door, and which they
have to share with two strangers. The beds in some of these are
so close together that they all touch and one man has to sleep
with his head by another's feet. In some the heating consists
of a single small pipe along the wall, though radiators have been
installed in others.
Most dormitories have a dayroom five or six metres square,
with a television, but no carpets, no curtains and three rows
of chairs in regimented lines. Two ramshackle telephone boxes
stand on one wall. This room is part of the route from the rest
of the centre to the cubicles and is both busy and noisy with
telephones, television and tannoy in competition. The division
from the cubicles is about five feet high but above the space
stretches up to the gloom of the rafters so there is no noise
separation for men wanting to sleep. Neither is there any privacy,
the narrow aisle between the stalls is always busy with men and
the stalls themselves have no doors. Despite the fresh grey paint
the place feels startlingly gloomy in twenty first century Britain,
reminiscent of some dim and aged agricultural shed.
In the bathroom there are half doors on the showers and the
toilet stalls. At the time of (sometimes random) roll checks the
good guards will allow a detainee sat on the toilet to show his
hand. The less sympathetic members of staff open the lockless
doors.
Two of the dormitories (one very small) have enhanced facilities,
doors with locks, in cell TV, full size lavatory doors, billiard
table etc.
The men (Haslar is a male institution) are let out of their
dormitories five days a week, three times a day, for three hours
in the morning, three in the afternoon and three in the evening.
In these periods they eat and can attend the medical centre, change
their kit, or go to classes in English or computers (except on
Wednesdays when there is no afternoon education). If they are
lucky they get a visit and go to the visits room. If they are
unlucky they are strip-searched afterwards, made to drop their
pants and squat down in front of the guards.
In the evenings they are allowed to go to the chapel for
45 minutes. There is bingo on Saturday nights. There is a playing
field and the men have occasional access depending on staffing
levels. The rest of the time they sit round watching television
and worrying about their cases. Some of them are there for months,
a number for over a year and one or two for over two years. Immigration
detainees are not charged with any crime—they are kept behind
bars for administrative convenience.
Laundry is part individual and part collective. Men using
their own clothes have them individually laundered. Prison tracksuits,
socks and underwear are washed collectively and reallocated. The
men much dislike using other people's underpants.
The canteen, a cupboard in the main corridor, is open to
any individual man three times a week selling a limited range
of foodstuffs, toiletries and stationery. The toiletries include
toothpaste—one tube is provided free of arrival but not
replaced. Shop profits to into a fund to benefit the men—some
thousands have recently been spent from this on cardio-vascular
equipment for the gym, £10 a week goes to bingo prizes.
The dining room is dark painted and smells of cooking. The
tables are small and the seats crammed together. The food is not
bad, albeit school dinner style, portions generous. Two very good
sized meals a day plus a breakfast pack—coffee, dried cereal,
jam and margarine. Also a generous drinks pack—teabags sugar
etc for making drinks during the day. These packs are issued every
morning with milk for cereals and drinks.
Education has always been recognised as the one bright spot
at Haslar. There are nearly 40 up-to-date computers in various
rooms. There are also two quite small English rooms—space
for maybe 30 men to learn the language. There is an art room and
a library, maybe 6 metres by 5 metres, and a small but pleasant
library reading room.
The education may be good but it is not adequate compensation
for the dreadful dormitories. The men are incarcerated with people
they don't know, who may not share their language, who may not,
in some cases, be particularly clean. They have to use tenth hand
underpants and have to drop them in front of the staff. The sentence
is indefinite and some men stay there for 20 or 30 months. Grown
men are often reduced to tears.
The Home Secretary announced in January 2002 that he was
aware that Haslar is sub-standard and that he plans improvements.
Improvements have been planned and shelved for at least the last
25 years. The best thing which could become of this dreadful place,
a scar on Britain's reputation, is that it be bulldozed.
JULY-DECEMBER 2002 STATISTICS—LONDON DETAINEES SUPPORT
GROUP AND GATWICK DETAINEES WELFARE GROUP
| LDSG | GDWG
| Totals | Percentage
of total
|
| Number of detainees assisted July-December 2002
| 207 | 311 | 518
| |
| Female | 60 | 169
| 229 | 44 |
| Male | 147 | 142
| 289 | 56 |
| When detained? | |
| | |
| On arrival | 33 | 53
| 86 | 17 |
| On reporting | 22 | 23
| 45 | 9 |
| From a HO interview | 6 |
5 | 11 | 2 |
| From police/prison custody | 6
| 29 | 35 | 7
|
| Picked up by immigration (ie at place of work/home)
| 45 | 117 | 162
| 31 |
| Not known | 95 | 84
| 179 | 35 |
| Immigration status |
| | | |
| Asylum seekers | 191 | 219
| 410 | 79 |
| Non asylum seekers | 6 |
57 | 63 | 12 |
| Not known | 10 | 35
| 45 | 9 |
| Status on arrival in detention centre
| | | |
|
| Awaiting initial decision of asylum claim |
39 | 25 | 64 |
12 |
| Awaiting decision of 1st appeal | 12
| 19 | 31 | 6
|
| Awaiting decision of further appeals | 13
| 34 | 47 | 9
|
| Awaiting removal or travel docs | 28
| 155 | 183 | 35
|
| Awaiting removal or travel docs after signing to go home
| 16 | 7 | 23
| 4 |
| Not known | 99 | 71
| 170 | 33 |
| Status on leaving detention centre |
| | |
|
| Awaiting initial decision of asylum claim |
0 | 9 | 9 | 2
|
| Awaiting decision of 1st appeal | 3
| 18 | 21 | 4
|
| Awaiting decision of further appeals | 34
| 30 | 64 | 13
|
| Awaiting removal or travel docs | 24
| 146 | 170 | 34
|
| Awaiting removal or travel docs—signed to go home
| 10 | 7 | 17
| 3 |
| Granted refugee status | 0 |
0 | 0 | 0 |
| Not known | 143 | 75
| 218 | 44 |
| How left detention centre? |
| | | |
| Granted temporary admission | 20
| 32 | 52 | 10
|
| Released on CIO bail | 0 |
0 | 0 | 0 |
| Released on Adjudicator bail | 33
| 5 | 38 | 8
|
| Transferred to another detention centre |
39 | 82 | 121 |
24 |
| Moved to a prison | 0 | 1
| 1 | 0 |
| Removed from the UK | 48 |
132 | 180 | 36 |
| Granted refugee status | 0 |
0 | 0 | 0 |
| Unknown | 73 | 27
| 100 | 20 |
| Other | 1 | 6
| 7 | 1 |
| Age of detainees | |
| | |
| Under 18 with family | 25 |
33 | 58 | 11 |
| Under 18 unaccompanied | 3 |
4 | 7 | 1 |
| 18-21 | 8 | 17
| 25 | 5 |
| 22-30 | 67 | 121
| 188 | 36 |
| 31-55 | 62 | 62
| 124 | 24 |
| 56+ | 1 | 3
| 4 | 1 |
| Not known | 41 | 71
| 112 | 22 |
| Special needs | |
| | |
| Pregnant women | 4 | 0
| 4 | |
| Disabled | 2 | 0
| 2 | |
| Diagnosed with serious medical condition |
8 | 14 | 22 |
4.24 |
| Serious psychological condition | 10
| 10 | 20 | 3.86
|
| Bail | |
| | |
| Bail application with solicitor pending |
19 | 29 | 48 |
9 |
| Bail application with BID pending | 4
| 1 | 5 | 1 |
| No bail applications made | 35
| 255 | 290 | 56
|
| Legal | |
| | |
| Detainees who were unrepresented at a hearing
| 1 | 0 | 1 |
|
| Detainees you have had to find a lawyer |
14 | 52 | 66 |
13 |
February 2003
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Coping with detention, Daniel Wasp, University of East London,
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